In a year when Latin America was swept with protests against gender-based violence from Mexico to Chile, the Encuentro de Mujeres que Luchan, organized by the Zapatista community, welcomed some 4,000 women to the Chiapaneco highlands to unite in transnational feminist solidarity and confront the global crisis of violence against women.
A study published Wednesday confirms “extensive direct links” between environmental pressures and gender-based violence.
Bryant’s athletic prowess does not entitle him to the cultural benefit of the doubt, placing his protection over that of his alleged victim.
A court in India issued a death warrant Tuesday for four men convicted of gang-raping a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in 2012. They are set to be hanged on January 22.
As much awareness as the #MeToo movement has generally brought to the sexual violence epidemic in this country, rape culture still persists — and, unfortunately, all too many people subscribe to myths promoted by rape culture.
Tunisian women from different ages and backgrounds have begun to share their sexual harassment stories on social media under the hashtag #EnaZeda — which means #MeToo in the Tunisian dialect.
Korean women are still—nearly 75 years later—fighting to gain restitution from the country that forced them into sexual slavery, despite a “final and irreversible” deal reached between Korea and Japan in 2015.
While Harvey Weinstein’s accusers are figuring out whether to take a proposed multimillion-dollar settlement, Japan’s version of Harvey Weinstein has been ordered to pay just 3.3 million yen ($30,000) in damages in a very public rape case.
As if being pursued by an enemy isn’t traumatic enough, women in the military are also being stalked by their own..
On November 18, the body of Jennifer Rothwell, 28, was found near a state park outside of Troy, Mich. Her own husband led police to her remains after they accused him of murder. Now, news outlets are reporting that Rothwell, who was six weeks pregnant when she was killed, had searched “what to do if your husband is upset you are pregnant” on her cell phone before she went missing.
While she may have escaped the horrors of North Korea, one woman who defected to South Korea says she has been forced into a new nightmare.
“When women die, the man gets to tell the story,” said Fiona Mackenzie, founder of British advocacy group We Can’t Consent to This.
The United States has not had a working Violence Against Women Act since February, when VAWA lapsed during a rush to pass legislation to (unsuccessfully) avoid a partial government shutdown. And now, while the House has already passed a version of the act earlier this year, the Senate is refusing to take up the bill because of pressure from the National Rifle Association.
Burmese women are critical to understanding a country whose people have endured systematic violence and repression for far too long. They can’t be forgotten.
In 2012, around 800 women and 500 children in northern Ghana were estimated to be banished to and kept in 10 known “witch camps” for this very purpose.
In a stunning display of greed—or possibly deep ignorance—two popular Japanese clothing brands have purposely turned a human rights tragedy into a selling point: Muji and Uniqlo have both been touting the fact that the cotton for their clothing comes from Xinjiang, China, an area in which a million Muslim Uighurs have reportedly been detained in “reeducation” camps.
Gender-based and sexualized violence have gained new focus in South Africa in recent years. Femicide and rape crimes have increased at an alarming rate in the past four years; in 2016, a woman was murdered every four hours in South Africa, and by 2018, that rate rose to every three hours.
In a country as staunchly anti-abortion as Argentina, Sunday’s presidential election outcome signals a potential sea change for women’s rights in the notoriously restrictive country.
As the #MeToo movement steadily grows throughout Mexico, with thousands of actions, collectives, and ongoing projects in operation throughout the country, women are finding their power to fight back and build a society in which their lives are not in constant danger.
School administrators can choose to be proactive in making their schools safer from harassment and assault, or they can wait for their students to force their hands. Either way, they’d be wise to listen to their students.
We debate the meaning of the Second Amendment endlessly, but rarely stop to interrogate how and why the people who decide to kill dozens of people have also demonstrated that they hate women.
Writer Alison Friedman reflects on what Christine Blasey Ford's courage has meant to many women.
Women Under Siege discussed the disproportionate impact of the occupation on women with Kashmir scholars Ather Zia, founder of Kashmir Lit and co-founder of the Critical Kashmir Studies Collective, and Nitasha Kaul, a poet, novelist, artist, and associate professor of politics and international relations at the University of Westminster.
Zimbabwe's economic crisis has forced women working in informal setups to the fringes, where they're often rendered vulnerable to physical and sexualized violence.
Women Under Siege spoke with Lisa Wade, PhD, an associate professor of sociology at Occidental College and author of American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus, to better understand the relationship—and long history—between white supremacy, masculinity, and the American image.
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